Don't Criticize Reagan With Clinton In Office

September 25, 2000

This is in response to a Sept. 15 letter to the editor stating that President Reagan should have been impeached. I am a registered independent. I have no agenda and I think both parties have good ideas on how to improve this country.

But it astonishes me to see someone find fault with the former president in the wake of the administration we have had this past eight years. It was Reagan's policies and economics, in addition to the current technological boom, that are responsible for the economy we have today. Reagan brought an end to the Cold War and global communism. And there is nothing but speculation over what, if any, role he had in the Iran-Contra scandal.

Clinton has made a mockery of the White House. Never before in history has an administration had so many scandals. He sold nights in the Lincoln Bedroom and Camp David. Currently $1 billion cannot be found in the Department of Education by Ernst & Young. An additional $1 billion was sent to Haiti and lost. The Mexican border has more problems with drugs and illegal immigrants than it ever has had before.

The only good thing his critics have ever said about him is that he is a master communicator. But for my money, he is the slickest, seediest president ever and I hope I never see an administration as foul as his again.

How many more incidents like this do there have to be for the American public to see the president for who and what he really is?